An Information Architect and Interactive Designer, Amy has been in the field since 1998. She has extensive experience in design, development and deployment of various sizes and types of websites, as well as with administering and designing content management systems. She has designed for a wide range of consumers, including technology leaders, nonprofit organizations, financial institutions, as well as industry leaders in retail, health care, and pharmaceuticals.

Skills

Design Management

Gathering Business Requirements

Performing contextual research and analysis

Analyzing market data

Identifying target audiences

Interviewing target users

Generating User Scenarios and Use Cases

Information Architecture

Generating information architecture artifacts

Designing for various specific business goals

Creating Page Layouts

Recommending viable client-side technologies

Dealing with cross-platform/browser issues

Facilitating communication between all parties involved in development-delivery lifecycle

Addressing Usability and Accessibility Issues

Performing heuristic evaluation

Planning, performing, and logging usability tests

Using the latest usability standards to analyze results

Website Development and Software Packages

Programming Languages

HTML (CSS), DHTML, XML, SQL, JavaScript, PHP, ASP

SQL, Oracle, Informix, MySQL

Familiar with Perl, Python, CFML, COM, Java, JSP

Development/Design Packages

Visio, Photoshop, ImageReady, SnagIt, GIMP, Dia, Acrobat

DreamWeaver, HomeSite, Emacs, VI

Rational Rose, Powerpoint

Visual Source Safe, CVS

MS Office, StarOffice, OpenOffice

Operating Systems

Windows NT/2000/XP

Red Hat Linux, Suse/Novell Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HPUX

Macintosh OS 9/OSX

Employment

December 2007 - PresentEMC, Senior Software User Interface Engineer

Desigining EMC's Content Management and Archiving division's latest product, CenterStage, in concert with a large cross-functional team. Managing the design of four separate major features, as well as a large set of minor features. Producing complete design specifications which include wireframes and screens for new features, as well as flows for multi-step processes. Instructing developers in the construction of said features.

Participated in the redesign of Reebok.com, which launched this past April. Designed their faceted product search for their apparel and footwear portions of their web site, as well as their store locator. Produced design documents, including flowcharts and annotated wireframes/specifications.

Planned, recruited, created documentation for, tested and reported the results for usability testing for simpletuition.com's student loan consolidation web site. Created detailed recommendations in the form of sample/comp pages in addition to a complete usability report and user set.

Completed information architecture documentation for three large projects within the Staples organization, including two subsidiary corporations within Staples. Designed new applications for two of Staples' subsidiary organizations, as well as the second phase for Staples Invention Quest.

October 2005 - June 2006
One to One Interactive, Human Factors and Information Architecture Consultant, Freelance. Clients: Fidelity, Glaxo Smith-Kline

Completed competitive landscape analysis for Glaxo Smith-Kline's new line of diabetes drugs. Completed information architecture documents for Fidelity's Partcom redesign and merge with Marcom, including production of detailed site map, wireframes, and content inventory.

Responsible for usability preparation, testing, analysis and logging for
various clients, including the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University
and Montefiore Medical Center's web sites. Information Architecture and
wireframe-level design for the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale
University.

As a part of Fidelity eBusiness Design, led the design and completed both
visual design and information architecture for high profile projects on
Fidelity NetBenefits, including Loans, E-mail aggregation and user
preferences, E-Learning integration, Health and Welfare online
enrollment, and Defined Contribution online enrollment and income
deferrals. Also participated in design for One Fidelity, the retail
side of the company. Responsibilities include managing the production
of complete working prototypes in HTML and JavaScript, visual design of
individual pages using existing and new components, producing IA
artifacts including site maps, navigation specifications, clickable
screen inventories, alternate scenario documentation,
schematics/wireframes, and design review documents. Managing a small
design team (2-4 people).

Designed and developed e-commerce websites for various types of
clients, both B-B and B-C, including the first company to bring direct
marketing to the Web. Used Visio, Photoshop, ASP, VB, HTML, JavaScript,
SQL and Microsoft IIS to design and develop web applications.

Internship. Designed, developed and documented some of the first
community Web sites, including their flagship website,
AncientSites.com, now AncientWorlds.net. Was the first developer in the
company to use SQL in conjunction with proprietary scripting language
(RAGE) to create some of the first dynamic sites on the Web.